Chapter 1: Sino-German Relation, Historiography, and Organization.- Chapter 2: Elizabeth von Heyking: China through the Eyes of a Female Aristocrat.- Chapter 3: A “War for Peace”? German-Speaking Pacifists’ Views on the Boxer Conflict.- Chapter 4: Investing in “German Hong Kong”: The Building of a Global Economic Presence in Qingdao, 1898-1914.- Chapter 5: “One Has to Rely Completely on Oneself”: The Challenging Life of German Teachers at German-Chinese Schools, 1898-1914.- Chapter 6: Max Weber and China: Imperial Scholarship, Its Background and Findings.- Chapter 7: Raising Children, Educating Citizens: Chinese Readings of the German Pedagogue Georg Kerschensteiner.- Chapter 8: The Doctor as Patient: The Case of Elisabeth Kehrer and German Medical Missionaries in China.- Chapter 9: “What Exactly Is China” in Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler’s Die Maßnahme (The Measures Taken).- Chapter 10: Xiao Youmei: Chinese Musical Patriot or Comprador Germanophile?.- Chapter 11: Between Imagined Homelands: Florian Gallenberger’s John Rabe.- Chapter 12: Illegitimate Representatives: Manchukuo-German Relations and Diplomatic Struggles in Nazi Germany.- Chapter 13: Psychoanalysis in Chinese Exile: A. J. Storfer and His Magazine Project Gelbe Post.

Adopting a transnational approach, this edited volume reveals that Germany and China have had many intense and varied encounters between 1890 and 1950. It focuses on their cross-cultural encounters, entanglements, and bi-directional cultural flows. Although their initial relationship was marked by the logic of colonialism, interwar Sino-German relations established a cooperative relationship untainted by imperialist politics several decades before the era of decolonization. A range of topics are addressed, including pacifists in Germany on the Boxer Rebellion, German investment in Qingdao, teachers at German-Chinese schools, social and pedagogical theories and practice, female literary and missionary connections, Sino-German musical entanglements, humanitarian connections during the Nanjing Massacre, Manchukuo-German diplomacy, and psychoanalysis during the Shanghai exile. Joanne Miyang Cho is a Professor at the History Department of William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA.

Uses a transnational historiography. Provides in-depth analysis of Sino-German relations during the 19th and 20th centuries. Offers a unique perspective on the enduring and complex relationship between the two countries